Others you can see coming a long ways off, and wonder why those enduring them didn't appreciate that. But then, maybe that's the way with all collapses, whether it be of a country, a business, or even of an individual's well-being.
Of course, the collapses you never see are the ones in which the early signs were appreciated. Countries that had no Fall of Saigon because they took action, let's say, in 1965, rather than 1975, when things were too late to reverse.
Still, all too many react the way that's depicted in Downfall, the epic movie of the last days of the Third Reich. That Germany was going to lose World War Two was obvious from the outside, at least as of the Battle of Stalingrad, but the Germans kept on. At the bitter end, a lot of people react to just like the scenes depicted in that film. Some keep on as if things are normal, or that they'll suddenly get batter. Others act with self-preservation and look for a way to get out of Berlin. Some party it up as things go down in collapse. Some try to salvage things right to the end. Some try to help those they know will be afflicted. Some try to extract as much for themselves out of the collapsing entity.
Anyhow, there are no sudden collapses, of anything. The seeds of collapse are planted like those of weeds, undetected and unknown, long before they choke out everything else. People just don't see them growing.
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